Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Sunday 22 July
Freeze – put your logos where I can see them!
A middle-aged man in official-looking clothing marches down the street. He’s determined, on a mission.
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Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 26 December
2010: Is Britain finally on the path to metrication?
From 1 January, EU legislation will come in to force essentially making the UK measurement the “acre” forbidden in all official literature.
Edits / Manufacturing
Dahlman
Each month, we visit a small-scale, high-quality manufacturer that’s big on provenance. For May, we trotted into Dahlman, a 200-year-old saddlery currently owned by brothers Erik and Frank Hendriksen, direct descendents of…
Business / Industry
Desert Dream
Once a provincial backwater, the Jordanian port town of Aqaba is in the midst of a vast regeneration programme that will reposition it as the ‘gateway to the Levant’.
Affairs / Urbanism
Urbanism Forecast
Cairo's new satellite cities, the migration from Mumbai to Bandra, and Asia's frantic competition to build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Defence Briefing
Saudi's Arabia's big weapons spend and a personnel shortage in the Polish Army.
Business / Aviation
Smooth landing
Plans for a Terminal 5 at Heathrow were unveiled in 1993. Fifteen years and €5.6bn later, the largest single-span structure in the UK is ready. In Singapore, meanwhile, the new T3 at Changi has also opened its departure…
Affairs / Economics
Out of Africa
Chinese firms, from copper mining giants to small private businesses, have been flocking to Africa, investing €4.3bn last year. But a quieter phenomenon is the steady stream of African businessmen moving into China, 10,000…
Affairs / Soft Power
Rebrand Britain
Great Britain hasn’t seemed quite so great in recent years, its image damaged by unpopular wars and the banking crisis. But with the new coalition government bedded in and the Olympics on the horizon, experts from the…
Affairs / Soft Power
Soft central
Monocle's third annual Soft Power Survey is an attempt to push the debate on where soft power comes from and how to use it. With current shifts in the global power balance, never has it been more relevant.